Let’s say there’s a baseball game on TV at 1 o’clock that you want to watch at home. What can you say as you slip out during the noon hour?
1. “I need to check on something.”
2. “I think I might be coming down with something and I don’t want to infect everyone.”
3. “Something I need to take care of.”
4. “Have a meeting with a Justin Verlander.”
5. “You’ll probably be gone by the time I get back.”
6. “I’ve got to uh, you know, take care of that thing.”
Features writer Paul Turner is a columnist for The Spokesman-Review in the Features department. He writes "The Slice" column, which appears six times a week and produces general features stories for the Today section.
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